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Sun 31 Dec, 2006 08:57 pm
On TV today, a few networks gave rundowns of those who passed away this year. They mentioned virtually no non-Americans. If you were to make such a list, which names would you make certain to include?
In Canada, the (arguably) most notable deaths were:
Kenneth Thomson, billionaire and former media magnate
Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, hockey player
Jane Jacobs, urban activist
John Kenneth Galbraith, (Canadian-born) economist
Internationally, I think these people are significant:
Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia
Augusto Pinochet, Chile
P.W. Botha, South Africa
.... don't forget James Brown.... rockin' in the USA.
The English cricket team.
I checked out a list on Google.
Clarabell! Poor guy.
Moose (the dog Eddie from Frazier)
Not exactly notables, but near and dear to my heart.
Well, going back a few months now there was Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O'Connor who died from brain cancer. He had been given the grim initial diagnosis about half a year into the job. He succumbed in September.
And R(obert) Bruce Merrifield a chemist who won a Nobel prize in 1984 started his chemical decomposition back in May.
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